SPL's Blog

I’m working on his 23 month update — but wanted to post this separately.

Today we went to see our favorite dry cleaner dog, Lenny (a Pomeranian — photo is not Lenny himself) and as we pulled into the driveway of the shopping complex, I realized the "giant trash truck" was right behind me.  And what luck!  It was pulling into the shopping complex too.  Now this "giant trash truck" is generally exclusively in the domain of John and SPL (and their weekend walks to Starbucks) — and John gets credit for the name — it’s the truck that picks up the trash from the large dumpsters –as you all probably guessed — I know we have a very smart readership ;-). 

But I got to pile on today — and we stalked the truck until it ended up in a truck jam behind the local Starbucks (it couldn’t get its job done as there was a Coke truck blocking its way!  D’oh!)

So we didn’t get the payoff of it loading the trash, but we did a good job stalking.

And we got to see Lenny in the end :-).

And I noted to Grace, Lenny’s owner (and to John last night too :-), that before having SPL, I wouldn’t have noticed half the things that he helps me see.  Or if I did, they probably would’ve annoyed me (like trash day — I used to dread that — never could get the cans out on time.  Often ran out to the street, in my robe, in a frenzy, moments before our truck pulled up 🙂